Greetings, On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Karthikeyan A.K <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:24 PM, balachandar muruganantham < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Karthikeyan A.K <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > > IMO, GNUCash has more features than Tally has. It accomodates >> > > well with the Indian Double Book Accounting system. And it has a price >> > > that is hard to beat.
There are many. LedgerSMB, OpenERP, OrangeHRM and so on and so forth. I read somewhere (and often concur based on my own observations) that most ERP project ~80% are abandoned after a initial phase as Down the line, people on the floor have practical issues with it. Often the implementer is, justifiably, chasing imaginary milestones and raised invoices with payment looking like a chimera. There are plenty of articles describing how it should be approached and few of articles on the web describing failures. No organisation will easily, boldly acknowledge its shelved projects. Now I support Tally as it is the only "True" software product of India. Though I do not like the fact that they went bak on thier word on linux version which they announced circa 2006. The beancounters as it is are secretive and don't care for bottomline. Often an IT equipment purchase proposal gets a not immediately when it comes from Accounts or Sales department: they know how to sell their case to management. And more importantly, beancounters have the financial scrotum of their "management" handy. Add to that, even when a company locks out, it is the accountants and lawyers who are there to collect their part of the leftover flesh. So they don't care about the amount of money being spent. It is then jarring to the ears of in accountant if you tell them that their application is open-source. It is like the turn-off a free software follower feels when patented software bit is mentioned. It is then the issue of rephrasing/reframing the question: How can open source enthusiast get the accountant to adopt open source solution by explaining to them that their Data is perfectly safe when encrypted and web/network traffic can be encrypted too. Any automated sales-talk generator software out there? Above IMHO. -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
